Bloggers: the national guard under Ukraine takes from foreign customers

Kyiv passes the National guard of Ukraine designed to foreign customers military equipment, in fact suspending all known contracts for production and delivery of armoured vehicles abroad.
the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the first day weekend visited the 1st operational brigade of the National guard of Ukraine (NSU) in the training center fresh petrovcy near Kiev, where he got acquainted with new models of weapons and equipment, intended for delivery to equip the NSU. Poroshenko was accompanied by head of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov and the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, writes the blog of the Center for analysis of strategies and technologies. Among other things they were shown the prototype of the modernized tank T-BM and promoted " AutoKrAZ " Spartan armoured vehicles and Cougar develop and create Streit Group. The most curious part of the demonstration was the T-72B tank, abundantly hung elements mounted dynamic protection " Kontakt-1 ". Apparently, this tank was selected for the NMU any export order. In addition, it was shown 120-mm self-propelled mortar BTR-3M2, made on the base of BTR-3E1. Self-propelled mortars at the base of the BTR-3E1 (81-mm BTR-MM and 120 mm BTR-3M2) were designed and produced specifically under contracts 2007 and 2011 for the production and delivery of Thailand BTR-3E1 and vehicles on their basis." Thai origin self-propelled mortar BTR-3M2 shows and typical camouflage. Thus, the Ukrainian authorities in order to equip NSU continue frankly " Rob " foreign customers, in fact suspending all known contracts for production and delivery of armoured vehicles abroad. Experts suggest that " the emergence of armed NSU T-72 tanks looks in the current situation rather hasty step, because it threatens the relevant unexpected expansion of the range of " Voentorg " " Novorossiysk " militants. In a result instead of time-consuming delivery long rusting T-BW from somewhere out of Krasnoyarsk, " Voentorg " can quickly start to receive a lot of " fresh " T-72 tanks, besides obviously have a greater propensity replicate, multiply by division and upgradesa (for example, to the level of T-B) ". Recall that on the first day weekend Avakov released a photo of the new Ukrainian tank T64-BM - first instance, which will go into service with the National guard. At the same time claimed that the T-BM designation for the begun repair and modernization at the state enterprise " Kharkiv armored company " T-BU destined for delivery in the amount of 50 units in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into the contract GC " ukroboronservice " by the end of 2013. Focusing on the image of the first samples of the modernized T-BM, modernization is a " budget " and very incomplete, reduce mostly to the strengthening of the protection of the tower, the hull front and sides. On the rear of the turret installed Bay, ammunition and equipment, which can not fully protect the tower from the shooting in the back.


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